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...last 50 years Frank Bailey, 87, onetime president of Brooklyn's Title Guarantee & Trust Co., has been trying to repay little Union College (enrollment 993) of Schenectady, N.Y. for the $1,600 scholarship it gave him in 1881. Over the years, his repayment has amounted to $1,000,000; he has given a building, endowed chairs of physics, mathematics, and Greek ("Greek did me the most good . . . my teacher taught me to think"). Last week Frank Bailey added another $500,000-to strengthen the college's departments of electrical engineering and economics...
...present in the Stevenson speech: a sharp personal attack on Eisenhower. Stevenson resented Ike's charges that a Stevenson Administration would be no more successful than the Truman Administration in routing corruption. Said the Democratic candidate: "I had not expected that from the general, and I will not repay him in kind. But I would thank him to read more carefully what I don't believe he would write himself. Moreover you'll forgive me if I gag a little when Republican politicians don the ill-fitting mantle of self-righteousness and deliver holier-than-thou sermons...
...Egypt's landowners hold almost 60% of the land. The army proposes to break up all estates of more than 200 acres, sell the surplus acreage to fellaheens with less than two acres apiece. This would create more than 350,000 new peasant landowners. The government would repay the landlords in 30 years; the newly landed peasants would have even longer to repay the government. Landlords could be jailed for five years for obstructing redistribution...
...look at Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the missionary in the Belgian Congo. While Pastor Macartney has been preaching to congregations of educated, cultured people, some of whom doubtless are fairly wealthy, Dr. Schweitzer ministers to African natives untaught in the ways of polite society, ignorant, poor, and unable to repay him except in the coin of gratitude and love. But by Dr. Macartney's doctrinal standards, Dr. Schweitzer is a modernist, a heretic ... He denies many of the basic doctrines that to Dr. Macartney are essential elements of Christianity...
...have suffered." Then he turned to the subject of the hour: "... I have never been more conscious of the appalling responsibilities of the office. I did not seek it. I did not want it. I am, however, persuaded that to shirk it, to evade, to decline would be to repay honor with dishonor. I shall go now to the convention hall and accept the nomination of the Democratic Party...